SOCIAL SECURITY
Sir,-Your collection of opifions on the working of the Social Security system was very interesting, but as one who prepares a latge number of returns, it seems to me that the system is grossly uffair in one respect, namely, for the man with a small inchme. For instatice, a farmer by hard work makes £100 a’ year, as many do. His tax, about £7/10/s, goes to a fund from which atiothér man who does no regulat work is paid £117 per annum, and is allowed t6 eatn £52 pet anhum without affecting the amount of his age benefit. Surely no one earning less than £120 a yeat should be forced to pay tax at all. Of coursé the man with a small iricome cati get relief from the tax by pleading hardship, but many do not like to do this. The Act badly wants
amending.
H. E.
LAWRENCE
(Stratford)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 468, 11 June 1948, Page 5
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151SOCIAL SECURITY New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 468, 11 June 1948, Page 5
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